Month September 2007

Yo Gabba Gabba

While reading this month’s issue of Print, or some magazine of similar content, an article about the new kids’ show Yo Gabba Gabba caught my eye. Not being a kid, or even having any can be a huge disadvantage, particularly…

Best Chick-flick Ever

Death Proof is going in my book as the most entertaining chick-flick of all time, and my new favorite movie – hands down. Mind you, that I am not a huge Quentin Tarantino fan either – well I was until…

Super Happy Fun Time Friday

15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography – a collection of sites displaying informed treatment of type, collected by ilovetypography – another really great site. Yes, I know everyone is linking to this today but it is really good, so I…

Human Brain Cloud

Aside from having the coolest name, Human Brain Cloud is an insidiously addictive word association game that gratifies the information-lover in all of us by displaying results as an interactive word map. I guarantee that if you try it you…

Searching with oSkope

Oskope is a visual search tool that searches Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, and Ebay (though I couldn’t get the Ebay search to return anything). While searching Flickr I fist searched for images tagged Second Life and found a few really great…

Arctic Firefox about:blank

For a number of months now I have been using Dark Firefox, a custom about:blank style. Used in conjunction with the Stylish plugin it replaces the basic blank about:blank page with a dark screen and blue Firefox logo. Very sharp,…

Super Happy Fun Time Friday

SkreemR – An MP3 search engine that has returned some interesting podcasts. BM Custom WordPress Login Plugin – Create your own unique login screen for your WordPress installation. View Examples. Name that Color – a color selector that returns the…

Singulary Summit 2007 Speakers

The Singularity Summit was held last week and for those of us who were not able to attend there are podcasts available on the summit’s website. There is also a transcript of a particularly interesting talk presented by Jamais Cascio…